UPDATE: San Diego street and transportation officials aren’t finished with the Kearny Villa Road bicycle lane, a once-rutted corridor along Miramar Marine Corps Air Station that cyclists complained was only marginally improved by patchwork repairs last month.

Officials are putting the finishing touches on a plan to repave the lane for a smoother ride. The work is expected to be completed within two to three months.

The lanes will be resurfaced from Miramar Way to the entrance to state Route 163 on both sides of Kearny Villa Road, said Siavash Pazargadi, a senior traffic engineer.

Better yet, the lanes will be milled off before the new layer of asphalt is poured, said Hasan Yousef, deputy director of the Street Division. It’s a more durable form of repair, usually performed every 21 years on regular traffic lanes. The bike lanes also will be re-striped to provide an extra foot of space.

Just Fix It began chronicling cyclist discontent with Kearny Villa Road in 2007. In February of this year, triathlete Susan Norman told us of a bad fall she had taken along one of the worst parts of the southbound route, resulting in a broken shoulder and pelvis (Just Fix It, Feb. 24).

City street crews went in shortly afterward and patched dozens of cracks and potholes with asphalt (Just Fix It, March 19). But critics said the lane was still too rough for serious cycling.

The city had a more thorough job in mind all along, however, and now it looks as if the work finally is going to get done.

Preliminary design for the project is finished, and the city is in the process of awarding a contract. Regular traffic lanes are considered to be in adequate condition from work done a few years ago and will not be repaved.

The San Diego County Bicycle Coalition, an advocacy group, was consulted in planning for the upgrade to the lane, and Executive Director Kathy Keehan said “we’ll be thrilled” when the work is done.

We checked back with Norman, who had to drop out of a triathlon because of the injuries she suffered in training for the competition, and she was gratified to hear the upgrades are in the works.